John Agard’s ‘Checking out me history’ is written in dialectical non-standard English‚ where he has tried to input the natural sounds and phrases of a Caribbean dialect. This is important because one of the major themes of the poem is that of his personal identity; this use of language really highlights his different background and puts emphasis on his differences. His use of repetition‚ especially of the phrase “dem tell me” gives a sense of repetition and exaggerates the amount of things he was
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Madonna and Child Just until now‚ some Latin American cultures are learning to be more accepting of open sexual inclinations. I argue that for Campo’s mother‚ her religious beliefs are stronger than her love for her son‚ although she still loves him. “She hears much better than she sees”. Religion is important for Cuban people‚ and for the church being gay is something wrong‚ it is bad‚ it is sinful. His mom hears bad comments that priest and religious persons make. How sinful is a gay in front of
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Analytical Essay Have you ever wondered what it feels like to experience euphoria? In the song “The Calling”‚ The Fat Rat explains the feeling of euphoria. The connotation of the song uses lots of imagery to convey the tone/attitude and the theme of the poem. The connotation of “The Calling” has to do with the imagery used in the writing by the writer‚ The Fat Rat. “Reason and rhyme--Grand and glorious.” This is a great example of alliteration in the song that repeats the consonant r and g. “Gold and
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everyone is a traveler and choosing the roads to follow on the map of life is never a straight path that leaves someone with one single direction in which to head. The poet’s point of view in this poem is his belief that it is the road that one chooses that makes him the man who he is. From the tone of this poem‚ he has an inspiring and thoughtful mood. "I shall be telling this with a sigh‚ somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood‚ and I took the one less traveled by‚" in this passage
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Edmonton where Liberal and NDP candidates have been elected in recent history. The social democratic NDP had its origins on the Canadian Prairies and in the mining and pulp mill towns and railway camps of British Columbia‚ and has a history of support in Manitoba‚ Saskatchewan‚ and British
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Every society and culture has different ways of interpreting and defining occurrences by the way their own culture or society functions. "A society ’s culture‚ consists of whatever it is one has to know or believe in order to operate in a manner acceptable to its members"(Geertz 242). The rituals‚ customs‚ ethics and morals that are attributed to the cultures have caused these differences. To understand how the people of one culture interpret a situation or event‚ one must evaluate the attributes
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American writer and artist‚ Flavia Weedn‚ once wrote in her poem‚ “Some people come into our lives and leave footprints on our hearts and we are never ever the same”. One of my teachers told me something during my junior year that stood out to me and touched me dearly. She said‚ “Lift your problems up to Him‚ and He will take care of the rest”. Transitioning from a Catholic grade school to a public school high school was not an easy task‚ especially after recovering from a concussion. Upon entering
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Poems 2/HS305 The Harp Of India Why hang’st thou lonely on yon withered bough? Unstrung for ever‚ must thou there remain; Thy music once was sweet - who hears it now? Why doth the breeze sigh over thee in vain? Silence hath bound thee with her fatal chain; Neglected‚ mute‚ and desolate art thou‚ Like ruined monument on desert plain: O! many a hand more worthy far than mine Once thy harmonious chords to sweetness gave‚ And many a wreath for them did Fame entwine Of flowers still blooming on the
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The most explicit theme of the reading that stood out to me was racism in the form of slavery in the southern United States. Throughout the narrative‚ Douglass included excellent examples of how slaves are dehumanized‚ mentally and physically‚ by the slave system. In many ways‚ slavery and segregation were the main obstacles in his personality growth. One of the most powerful lines in the narrative was in chapter ten‚ when Douglass directly addresses the relationship between slavery and the denial
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The poem can be viewed as a sensational verse or emotional monolog. Each spring‚ the speaker in the lyric‚ probably the writer himself and his neighbor‚ an old New England rancher stroll along the stone divider between their individual properties to survey and repair the harm done to the divider consistently‚ apparently by cruel climate and seekers. Every rancher gets the stones that have tumbled to his side and places them back on the divider yet being of uneven shapes and sizes‚ they don’t stay
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